Use of echocardiography for predicting myocardial viability in patients with reperfused anterior wall myocardial infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 744-748

  Iwakura, Katsuomi ^a   Ito, Hiroshi ^a   Nishikawa, Nagahiro ^a   Sugimoto, Ken ^a   Shintani, Yasunori ^a   Yamamoto, Koichi ^a   Higashino, Yorihiko ^a   Masuyama, Tohru ^b   Hori, Masatsugu ^b   Fujii, Kenshi ^a  

^a Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; IOXAGLIC ACID;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY REPERFUSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, STRESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; MYOCARDIAL STUNNING; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENTS;

EID: 0034653320     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00852-8     Document Type: Article

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